Crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford has seen the light and now he is sorry

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Toronto’s substance-abusing mayor is vowing to cling to office after promising
that he had given up alcohol following a “come-to-Jesus” experience.

Hours after he was stripped of his remaining powers, knocked over an elderly
councillor and compared his critics to Saddam Hussein, Rob Ford blamed his
woes on heavy drinking and claimed he had not touched alcohol for three
weeks.

“I’ve let a lot of people down,” he told the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, admitting that he had displayed “excessive, stupid, immature
behaviour”. He said he had only smoked crack cocaine once, dismissing it as
“an isolated incident”. He denied driving